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The Faculty of Law at the University of Rijeka will be hosting its 2025 Doctoral Conference RIDOC on 12 December 2025. The event is designed for doctoral candidates who want to present and evaluate their preliminary research findings in front of academics, practicing lawyers, and engage in discussions with peers on an international scale. Eligible […]

Intersentia has recently published a new book by Michael Stürner (University of Konstanz), titled European Contract Law. This volume provides a comprehensive presentation of European contract law. It analyses the growing body of private law rules on an EU level and their interplay with domestic law and legal methodology. This includes new features in contract […]

As alluded to by Erik Sinander in his post on the judgment of the Grand Chamber of the CJEU in C‑600/23, Royal Football Club Seraing SA v. FIFA, et al. (“RFC Seraing”), the Court not only confirmed that the courts of EU Member States should have the possibility to review whether arbitral awards comport with EU public […]

EU Member States may not confer the authority of res judicata on an arbitral award over a sports dispute linked to an economic activity within the territory of the Union, unless the consistency of that award with the principles and provisions of EU law which form part of EU public policy has first been subject […]

As already announced on this blog, the next edition of the Winter School of the European Association of Private International Law will take place in Como from 2 to 6 February 2026. The general topic of the upcoming edition is Values in Private International Law. The teaching staff will consist of Laura Carpaneto (University of […]

Isabelle Jäger-Maillet, a family lawyer who also serves as the International Coordinator for the German Institute for Youth Services and Family Law in Heidelberg (DIJuF), kindly provided a presentation of her dissertation titled Fortentwicklung des grenzüberschreitenden Unterhaltsvorschussregresses, on the improvement of maintenance recovery by public bodies, recently published by Wolfgang Metzner Verlag. In European countries, […]

Legal Studies, the journal of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS), has published an interesting article by Jared Foong on a recent case from Singapore concerning the recognition of foreign solvent proceedings under the UNCITRAL Model Law on Cross-Border Insolvency. Although this article concerns a development under Singaporean law, it will be of interest to the […]

On 24 October 2025, a conference titled Adapting Private International Law in an Era of Uncertainty will be held at the Asser Institute in The Hague. The conference will begin with a welcome by Machiko Kanetake (Asser Institute) and the opening remarks by Vesna Lazić (Asser Institute and Utrecht University), followed by a keynote address […]

This post was written by Sara Migliorini and João Ilhão Moreira, who both teach at the Faculty of Law of the University of Macau. It builds on article they co-authored, titled Clashing Frameworks: the EU AI Act and Arbitration, just published on the European Journal of Risk Regulation. The EU AI Act (hereinafter, the “Act” […]

A conference will take place in Wrocław, on 17-18 September 2025, under the title Simplifying Cross-Border Judicial Videoconferencing in Europe. The event, part of the SimpliVi Project, is organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Justice (Project Coordinator) in collaboration with Court of Appeal Wrocław (Project Partner and Conference Host). Those interested in attending the […]

The second issue of the Revue critique de droit international privé for 2025 was published over the summer. It contains four articles and numerous casenotes. The first article is authored by Delphine Porcheron (University of Strasbourg) and discusses transnational actions for compensation of international crimes committed by States (Les actions transnationales en réparation de crimes […]

On 12-13 December 2025, the second edition of the (unofficial) Reunion of the Ravenna Summer School on Cross-border litigation and international arbitration will take place. The program of the reunion includes a special session on New perspectives in cross-border litigation and international arbitration, dedicated to the presentations of young researchers The presentations will be selected […]

The fifth issue of the IPRax (Praxis des Internationalen Privat- und Verfahrensrechts) for 2025 will be published on 1 September. The following advance abstracts have been kindly provided by the editor of the journal. Two of the articles will be published in English: Krapfl and Krahn discuss evidence gathering in international arbitration via freedom of […]

The author of this post is Michiel Poesen, co-director of the Centre for Private International Law and Transnational Governance and lecturer of private international law at the University of Aberdeen. This post considers which country’s copyright law governs the training and development (“T&D”) of generative AI (“GenAI”) for commercial purposes. It does so from a […]

The Court of Justice will resume its public activity on 2 September 2025. The most relevant event regarding private international law this month is scheduled for Thursday 11th, when the opinion of AG Ćapeta in case C-196/24, Aucrinde, will be published. The hearing took place last April as reported here. In the case at hand, the […]

The third issue of 2025 of ZEuP – Zeitschrift für Europäisches Privatrecht, is out. Various articles featured in the new issue will likely be of interest for the readers of this blog, including one by Helmut Ortner, Veronika Korom and Marion Neumann, in English, titled Pacta Sunt Servanda’s Soliloquy Amidst Sanctions: The Impact of EU […]

This post was written by Paul Eichmüller, University of Vienna. A recent decision by the Regional Civil Court of Vienna has sparked controversy in Austrian media. The outcry was due to the fact that the court allowed the enforcement of a domestic arbitral award that was based on “Islamic law (Ahl as-Sunna wa-l-Ǧamāʿa) according to […]

Lilian Larribère (Université Paris Nanterre) and Étienne Nédellec (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne) are the leaders of a project aimed at offering retrospective interviews (in French) of leading French scholars (En Chair(e)). The second interviewee is Pierre Mayer, who is Professor emeritus at the University Paris I and a leading French scholar of private international law […]

Following Brexit, the Brussels I bis Regulation ceased to apply in the UK. The regulation’s rules of jurisdiction in consumer and employment matters (Chapter II, Sections 4 and 5, Articles 17-23) were replaced by Sections 15A-15E of the Civil Jurisdiction and Judgments Act 1982. The Explanatory Memorandum to the amendments to the 1982 Act introducing […]

Katharina Boele-Woelki (Bucerius Law School, Hamburg) and Maarit Jänterä-Jareborg (Uppsala University) edited What Family Law for Europe? with Intersentia. The blurb reads as follows: In what ways does contemporary European family law respond to evolving societal dynamics and the growing imperative to uphold human rights? This volume addresses this question by taking a crossnational, comparative […]